[-] BartyDeCanter 19 points 1 month ago

I hate to tell you, but it's worse than that. Pre-ACA mental health wasn't covered at all except in extremely expensive private coverage for the wealthy, so it wouldn't matter if it was preexisting or not.

[-] BartyDeCanter 18 points 2 months ago

... the peak of your civilization. I say your civilization because as soon as we started thinking for you it really became our civilization which is, of course, what this is all about.

[-] BartyDeCanter 16 points 4 months ago

I mostly agree, but there is some subtlety.

Taking pictures of an event or thing is pretty weird. But taking a few pictures of friends and family is great. Going to the zoo to take a picture of an animal is pretty silly, but getting a quick snap of my kids seeing a giraffe for the first time is pretty great. Same with taking a selfie with my friends at a concert. Obviously, I’m not spending a lot of time trying to set up an instagram perfect photo, just a quick candid here and there.

I love seeing them show up in various timeline apps and albums later and remembering the day.

In short, take quick pictures of your loved ones and then enjoy the moment.

[-] BartyDeCanter 16 points 5 months ago

Um, no. If you’re having a problem with trolling you need to talk to a doctor about balance and mobility issues.

[-] BartyDeCanter 17 points 5 months ago

That it won’t matter. At most, debates only move polls by a couple of percentage points. This one is so early and the US has become so polarized that it won’t move the needle at all.

[-] BartyDeCanter 18 points 6 months ago

Well that really whips the llamas ass.

[-] BartyDeCanter 19 points 8 months ago

I’m one of them. For a lot of reasons my partner and I want to move, but we have a 3% mortgage. Even though we have a large amount of equity, we still can’t afford to buy now. I’m looking a getting a loan from my parents, which is ridiculous considering our situation but almost 8% interest rates mean our payment would just about double from what we have now.

[-] BartyDeCanter 22 points 10 months ago

Terrible ideas:

  • Garden hose
  • NEMA 10-50 - each "prong" could be a different connector
  • CCS
  • USB-A
  • Quick-connect air coupler
[-] BartyDeCanter 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Dating apps are deeply, deeply enshitified because the economic incentive for them is the exact opposite of what monogamous users want. Specifically, the apps want you to keep subscribing, plus buy the super platinum plus extra added packs, but never really find someone and date them, because then you stop paying. Old school pre-sellout OKCupid had a great analysis of this in their blog, which was taken down the day they sold out.

This is why the few sites/apps that cater to non-monogamous or event based communities are still reasonably decent, e.g FetLife, Bloom and Feeld, though Feeld is partially down the enshitification pathway.

I'd be really interested in seeing what a fediverse dating app would be like, something that didn't have the financial incentive to enshitify, and maybe had a match/search system like old-school OKC.

EDIT: missing word.

[-] BartyDeCanter 21 points 1 year ago

It is completely unnecessary to have modern semis to make a solar cell. You can easily make one with copper sheets and a salt solution.

The first solar cell dates to 1884.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_effect

[-] BartyDeCanter 18 points 1 year ago

Literally unusable. 🤣

[-] BartyDeCanter 22 points 1 year ago

Also, me eating a prune.

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